Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:20:19 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Are-Harald Brenne <are-harald.brenne@econ.uib.no> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Idea: Easy-to-make Gentoo-like install-iso Message-ID: <a05210649bab71c44374f@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <20030407053556.0000182b.are-harald.brenne@econ.uib.no> References: <20030407053556.0000182b.are-harald.brenne@econ.uib.no>
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At 5:35 AM +0200 2003/04/07, Are-Harald Brenne wrote:
> - Prompt for country and based on this set up time, keyboard, charset
> and ftp mirror site.
Perhaps as a default that can be changed, this might be okay.
Otherwise, ensure that English/QWERTY is available and selectable in
all country definitions. Don't just force me to use either French or
Dutch with an AZERTY keyboard layout, just because I live in Belgium.
Also, if you're going to go this route, make damn sure you cover
all possible languages in the respective country, not just the main
languages -- 5% of the population of this country speak only German,
and would probably not know what to do with an OS that insisted that
they could only speak either French or Dutch, just because they live
in Belgium.
Moreover, keep in mind that in many countries, you're closer to
large parts of other countries than you might be to other parts of
your own country. For example, in Belgium, depending on your ISP,
you may be closer to sites elsewhere in Europe or even in the US,
than you are to other parts of Belgium. Don't just force me to use a
Belgian download site as my only choice, just because I happen to
live in Belgium.
This whole process is a lot more complex than you might think.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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